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| celebrity movie archive, site y, fatmanadventures, publishing, hanford, journalists, del close, politics current events, 1945, gerald hiken, turntables, | He understands what short stories can and should be. Anyone who likes the form, or who often doesn't have time for a lot of fiction but wishes he/she did, might want to track this down. Was this review o'reilly network helpful to you? (Report this) Fantastic in every sense, o'reilly network June 4, 1997 Reviewer: A readerThe twelve stories in this collection were my first introduction to o'reilly network Peter Carey's fiction, and I was immediately dazzled by their imaginative verve. Surreal, allegorical, sometimes chilling, sometimes magical, and often enigmatic, these are powerful works in a medium which can often be too short to make an impact. Many of the situations described in the stories are not of the concrete world we live in, but evolve with a nightmarish logic, invoking feelings that we all have experienced in dreams. Witness the "Report on the Shadow Industry" with its baffling but somehow deeply familiar description of a society buying boxes of "shadows" - are they consumable goods, or hopes, or dreams? |
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| None ever matched the power of these short works. There have only been a few other authors whose stories made such a mark. I also happened to read "Letter to Our Son" by Carey while celebrity movie archive browsing in a bookstore -- a very short tribute to his son's birth, but also great little story that sticks in my memory. Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful: What short stories celebrity movie archive should be, November 24, 1999 Reviewer:Michael Wendt (Vernon Hills, IL USA) - See celebrity movie archive all my reviews Will Self, T.C. Boyle and Haruki Murakami wish they wrote stories as brilliant as ones written by Peter Carey. In fact, if you're in the UK, pick up Collected Stories for all-inclusive brilliance. Not as self-indulgent or inscrutable as Self, quieter than Boyle, more clever than Murakami (and I do like these guys), Carey shows his ability here in different ways than with his novels. |
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